Wolfgang Gill wrote: >>>>> Nope it doesn't matter. Drive selects are done with jumpers on the >>>>> drive. All IDE 40/80 pin cables are straight through, Tim: >> It's completely wrong to say that all IDE 40 or 80 wire cables are wired >> straight through. THEY ARE NOT! Repeat after me, they are NOT *all* >> wired straight through. And if anything, the *majority* are not. Wolfgang: > I never said no such thing that ALL 40/80 pin IDE cables are straight > through. Read the third sentence that you wrote, at the top of this page, a few generations back. Now don't tell me that you didn't say what I quoted you as saying. > And it seems that we both overlooked the fact that the original > poster, was using a cable select cable. As drives jumpered as > master/slave don´t function when two drives are connected to the > cable. You want to try that again, that's (the second one) a completely nonsensical sentence. It does NOT matter whether a cable is a cable-select cable or not, when you jumper your drives as master and slave. They behave as master and slave, as jumpered, no matter what the cable is. Why is it that people do not understand this? The jumpers on the drive override anything else. You have to specifically set drives into the cable-select mode for them to pay any attention to the type of cabling. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
